Question: You have been showing houses for a lot of years. Any spooky stories to share?
Answer: There was an old two-story house in my area that was on the market for a long time—a real fixer-upper in a hot neighborhood. It was eerie: Floors weren’t level, squeaky steps, the works. When I was inside, I felt like someone was watching me, and it wanted me to leave. It was when I noticed a light in the basement, so I calmly walked right out ... because the house had no electricity.
Next two stories were told to me by Realtors in my office: During a showing, we walked into a vacant foreclosure that I thought no one else was showing at the time. There was no car in the driveway and no sign of anyone present. As we opened the front door, two men were coming down the staircase from upstairs—one wearing a long black robe like a priest would and a necklace with a huge cross. He had dark hair and a long, dark beard. The other man, whom I’m guessing was his agent, walked behind him. We all cordially greeted one another, and they walked out the back door. We never saw them get into a car or walk down the street. They just seemingly disappeared. My buyer never lets me forget that house and tells everyone that story.
There was a bed set up in the main area of the basement. No one appeared to be home, but when we went downstairs the lights were on and music was playing. We noticed that there was someone under the covers of the bed. I said ‘Hello’ more than once but did not approach the bed. The person didn’t move, and it was clearly the silhouette of a person. So we quickly got out of there.
I was showing a townhouse. Everything was normal as we went through the house, nothing out of the ordinary until we got to the third bedroom. It was loaded with glass aquariums filled with spiders — nothing but spiders, everywhere you looked. And I'm not talking regular spiders either, they were tarantulas, wolf spiders — the big ones. It was like a room at a museum. Either the owner was a scientist or hoping to be the next Peter Parker. My clients didn't even consider the house.
